Only nine days until pitchers and catchers report to Bradenton, FL. for spring training. During Friday night’s edition of Hot Stove they compared Baseball to Football. With the season so close to starting, it’s only fitting to list why our National Pastime really is the better sport.

• First off, there is no equivalent that football has to ‘take me out to the ball game’.
• Major leaguers can play long enough careers to actually play alongside their sons.
• You can be a star in baseball despite being 47 years old (Ask Jamie Moyer).
• Drew Brees grew up a baseball fan, memorizing the stats of Ted Williams. It’s the reason he wears Teddy Ballgames No. 9 for the Saints.
• MLB’s All-Star game, the mid summer classic, is played in mid-season and the teams actually play defense.
• In baseball, both teams have the chance to score in overtime.
• Jackie Robinson day is unique to baseball. There is no equivalent in football.
• The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum tops anything football has.
• There is no such thing as old timers games in football.
• Fathers taking their sons to the warmth of the Grapefruit and Cactus leagues has become a right of passage and getting to the ballpark hours early to catch a glimpse of batting practice feels like heaven.
• Football has no answer to cheering from the bleachers at Wrigley and Fenway.
• Who wants their favorite rivalry to only come around once or twice a year? In baseball, great matchups like Red Sox, Yankees could happen up to 25 times a year.
• Are there any words in the English language that can warm you up on a cold day quicker than, ‘pitchers and catchers report soon’?